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The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus
Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates have reduced, in the case of Belarus women activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender pay gap. This paper investigates why this is the case by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859745
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Family Migration : A Vehicle of Child Morbidity in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?
Konseiga, Adama - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Parental migration is often found to be negatively correlated with child health in Africa, yet the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. The paper uses a dataset that provides information from the respondent parent on child morbidity both in the rural and urban settings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859576
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Union Density and Varieties of Coverage : The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Lembcke, Alexander C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861118
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The Effect of Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage on Children´s Long-Term Outcomes
Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper evaluates the impact of three major expansions in leave coverage in Germany on the long-run education and … labor market outcomes of children. Evaluation of three policy reforms as opposed to a single reform enables us to analyze …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859461
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Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?
Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household level. We put forward an identification strategy that relies on the fact that variation of wages induces variation in benefits and tax credits among "comparable households...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859545
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Early Child Development and Maternal Labor Force Participation : Using Handedness as an Instrument
Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David W.; Shah, Manisha; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We estimate the effect of early child development on maternal labor force participation using data from teacher assessments. Mothers might react to having a poorly developing child by dropping out of the formal labor force in order to spend more time with their child, or they could potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859606
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Armed Conflict and Schooling : Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
Akresh, Richard; Walque, Damien de - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
To examine the impact of Rwanda`s 1994 genocide on children`s schooling, the authors combine two cross … group`s baseline schooling and exploits variation across provinces in the intensity of killings and which children`s cohorts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859638
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Work-Life Balance Practices and the Gender Gap in Job Satisfaction in the UK : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Asadullah, Niaz; Fernández, Rosa M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
characteristics such as WLB andgender segregation boost the satisfaction of women proportionately more than that of men … satisfaction but similarly for bothdemographic groups thereby reducing the gender gap in job satisfaction only slightly. Still … only explain a half of thegender gap in job satisfaction, suggesting that the other half may be due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859523
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On Gender Gaps and Self-fulfilling Expectations : Theory, Policies and Some Empirical Evidence
Rica, Sara de la; Dolado, Juan José; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper considers a simple model of self-fulfilling expectations that leads to a multiple equilibrium of gender gaps in wages and participation rates. Rather than resorting to moral hazard problems related to unobservable effort, like in most of the related literature, our model fully relies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859583
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The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation : Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Sookram, Sandra; Strobl, Eric - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We analyse the role of educational choice on the degree of occupational segregation in Trinidad and Tobago during a period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in education were implemented. To this end we utilise waves of the Trinidad and Tobago labour force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859602